Tattoo Ink
Learn all about tattoo ink, from ingredients and colors to safety and quality. Explore how different inks affect your tattoo’s look, longevity, and healing process.
FDA Recalls Contaminated Ink and Needles (2014)
FYI All Stick and Pokers There has been a recall on some ink and needles sold online. Just to clarify - this is NOT the kind of ink that is our kits. Our ink is the highest quality you can get.
Partner Tattoo Time
Introducing the first ever: Partner Kit. This kit has enough for two people to safely poke. Just make sure that you throw everything out & pour new ink before starting the second person... Stick and Poke (hand poke) history is steeped in partner tattooing. The culture is: late night bedroom
The Biology of Tattoos
This video explains why ink stays in the epidermis (skin) - and is not shed or taken away via the body's reaction to it's annoyance with foreign stuff in there. Have you thanked your macrophages & fibroblasts today? Also - why to wear sun screen to preserve your tattoos & the science
Tradezies
Want a kit? Cool! I am open to trades. I want people to have a kit if they want one - because that means they will do a safer tattoo. Dirty sewing needle? Don't do it! Pen or printer ink? - No! So, yeah, if you have something to trade or
Portrait of a Portraitier
Miss Amanda Arkansassy is the real deal. She was my first real SnP fan (besides friends & mothers who just support everything I do). When others could not imagine the purpose of a Stick & Poke Tattoo Kit - she excitedly told me that she loved it and would take one ASAP.
Miley Cyrus Hand Tattoos
Sup y'all! Just some meaningless celebrity gossip to follow... Miley Cyrus has 22 tattoooooss! Many of which are on her milky white paws. Maybe more by now?! A day has passed, after all. No tattoo shaming going on here. I'm down with little permanent reminders of our crazy lives. You
Spring Induced Liver Anger, HCV, prisons and you
By Nickie Nick and Gabe Barnow "Spring-time is the time of the liver,” says my acupuncturist as I sip on my liver detox tea. What does that even MEAN? I exclaim through my modern science teacher lens? She replies calmly, as if a sheer fact, "the emotion tied to the
Belated Valentines Gesture?
Forget the flowers
Stick and poke goes Green
When doing anything, I think of the plastic. On days that I listen to NPR, I tend to avoid buying some favorite foods - like Seaweed Snacks - because those fragile sheets of salty heaven are wrapped up like gold in a plastic Fort Knox. And for what? Give me
